Sand-pipe for locomotives



(NO Model.)

D. A; REAGAN.

SAND PIPE FOR LOCOMOTIVES.

No. 367,062. Patented July .26, 188.7.

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UNITED STATES;

PATENT OFFICE.

DOMINIOK A. REAGAN, OF ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAND-PIPE FOR LOCOMOTIVES.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,062, dated July 26, 1887,

Application filed January 26, 1887. Serial No. 295,512. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DOMINIOK A. REAGAN, of Altoona, Blair county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sand-Pipes for Locomotives,of which the following is a true and exact description, due reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof.

The object of myinvention is to provide 10- comotive-ehgines with sand-pipes which shall be free from the tendency to choke or become clogged, which sometimes impairs the usefulness of t-hosenow in use.

I have discovered that the choking of the sand-pipe is usually due to the presence of water about the mouth of the pipe, a little water at the edge causing some sand to stick there when the pipe is used and when the wa ter is constantly present, as on a rainy day. Moresand will lodge about the mouth of the pipe when it is used again, until finally the pipe is entirely choked and filled with sand, which I have found will become wet all the way back to the sandbox, even wetting the sand in the box itself. To overcome this difficult-y I have devised. a shield to shed water from the pipe and prevent it from reaching the, mouth thereof at least sufficiently to avoid much of the trouble.

Reference is now had to the drawings, which illustrate my inventiomand in which Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a locomotive,

showing the sand box and pipe in their usual position,- Fig. 2, an enlarged sectional view of the end of the sand-pipe provided with my improvement; and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are views ofa number of modifications of my invention.

A is the sandpipe; B, the sandbox; C, an engine driving wheel; D D D D, my improved shields or water-deflectors.

E is the railway-track,- F, Figs. 2 and 3, the mouth of the sand-pipe, (shown as projecting into the bell-like shields D and D f, Fig. 2, is a thread on the sand-pipe to en able the bell D to be screwed into place.

dis a gutter formed in the upper forward part of the bell D, and adapted to catch any water-flowing onto this part of the bell and deflect it to the lower edge, cl.

e e, Figs. 3, 4, and 5, show the mouth of the bell as having a recurved edge tapering grad.- ually to a point at the bottom, 6, this construction being especially desirable when the pipe A does not project into the bell. (See, for instance, Fig. 4.)

G is a deflector-plate covering the front of the shield or bell D, Fig. 5, its object being to prevent water from splashing into the sandpipe from the track or road-bed.

The operation of my improvement is, of course apparent, the shields deflecting and shedding the water away from contact with the mouth of the sand-pipe,and being,besides, so large at their mouths and so shaped that no large amount of sand would be able to collect in them and clog the action of the sandpipe. The shields or bell-mouths'may be made of cast metal, as in Fig. 2, or of sheet metal, as indicated in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, and may be secured in any convenient manner. They are of course capable of many modifications in shape and adjustment, the figures illustrating those forms which I believe will be found most efficient in practice.

Having now described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the sand-pipe of a locomotive, a bell-mouth secured thereto and having its edges curved or grooved, as specified, so as to deflect the water flowing onto it toward its bottom point.

2. In combination with the sand-pipe of a locomotive, a bell-mouth secured thereto and projecting over but not coming in contact with the mouth of the sand-pipe, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

'3. In combination with the'sand-pipe of a locomotive, a bell-mouth secured'thereto, and

a supplemental shield extending in front of 91.

the bell mouth, as specified, to prevent water from splashing into the sand-pipe.

4. In combination with the sand-pipe of a locomotive, a bellmouth secured thereto,pro-

jecting over but not touching the mouth of 5 the sand-pipe, and having its edges curved or grooveu to form a gutter and direct the water to the lowest edge, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

DOMINIGK A. REAGAN. 

